No, I am strictly a club player. Santoro was my favourite because I alive and die by the slice.

I retired to Costa Rica and was surfing for tennis sites with results.
I had just come from living in Cuba and at that time there was a Mexican poster called Jorge, a devoted communist. We argued for a few years and then he just disappeared one day.

Did you ever think about doing tournaments or trying to go professional?
Also what brought you to MTF?

I play on a clay court in Toronto in the winter now.

No, I am strictly a club player. Santoro was my favourite because I alive and die by the slice.

I retired to Costa Rica and was surfing for tennis sites with results.
I had just come from living in Cuba and at that time there was a Mexican poster called Jorge, a devoted communist. We argued for a few years and then he just disappeared one day.

Not sure what you mean. I started when I was about 11 on a clay court that had been abandoned by a local church. Torn net, lead strip for line marker that sat up about 1cm above the clay, and collapsed perimeter fence. Ughhhhh! But we had fun.
I didn't really get serious court time until I lived in mining camps in the Caribbean. That was like having a private court in your back yard, as maybe only half a dozen people played. So it was tennis almost seven days a week after work. Paradise.

WOW!!! That is awesome, I've always wanted to play on a clay court.

Did you ever think about doing tournaments or trying to go professional?
Also what brought you to MTF?

Not sure what you mean. I started when I was about 11 on a clay court that had been abandoned by a local church. Torn net, lead strip for line marker that sat up about 1cm above the clay, and collapsed perimeter fence. Ughhhhh! But we had fun.
I didn't really get serious court time until I lived in mining camps in the Caribbean. That was like having a private court in your back yard, as maybe only half a dozen people played. So it was tennis almost seven days a week after work. Paradise.

It is different now. And I exaggerated a bit. But when I was growing up there were no shops or bars open and no sports events were allowed. No cinemas. Yes, those with a car were able to go for a Sunday afternoon ride. But having your own car was a luxury. It was not that long after WWII, remember.
I was more commenting on the religious mentality, where doing things on the Sabbath was considered immodest.
Do they still operate the elevators automatically on the Sabbath in Israel or has that all changed as well?

still but now theres two elevstors, one who works as usual.

i guess things were alot different in beurope after WW2, most ppl didnt have money or energy for nothing

why in a sunday they only go bto church and sleep while watching tv? its a free day no one is traveling the country?

It is different now. And I exaggerated a bit. But when I was growing up there were no shops or bars open and no sports events were allowed. No cinemas. Yes, those with a car were able to go for a Sunday afternoon ride. But having your own car was a luxury. It was not that long after WWII, remember.
I was more commenting on the religious mentality, where doing things on the Sabbath was considered immodest.
Do they still operate the elevators automatically on the Sabbath in Israel or has that all changed as well?

09-09-2013 08:15 PM

Punky

Re: In The Spotlight: buddyholly

why in a sunday they only go bto church and sleep while watching tv? its a free day no one is traveling the country?

Well, I did not know then that it was forbidden to press an elevator button on the sabbath. So I reported it as being broken.

As for everything closed, I was brought up in Northern Ireland, where I am sure it was even more of a sabbath lockdown. So that did not surprise me.
In Northern Ireland a typical Protestant Sunday was to go to church, where the women made catty comments on the other women's Sunday clothes and the men nursed their Sunday morning hangovers.
Then everybody went home, had dinner and snoozed in front of the fire until it was bedtime.

wheres the traveling? its a day off...

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